Sources of Funding

Information Sheet 6

Sources of Funding

Statutory Funders e.g. Local Authority, Single Regeneration Budget, Health Authority

Pros:

• can fund ongoing work

• can fund salaries and running costs (sometimes)

• will often fund unpopular causes

Cons:

• decreasing amounts of money available

• applicants have to fit funders’ priorities

• may have strings attached (eg certain level of service required)

Quangos: quasi-autonomous non-governmental organisations - often run along the same lines as statutory funders, e.g.:- the Arts Council, the Sport England (was Sports Council), English Partnerships - funds capital works to provide or improve buildings or land.

Government Area-based Initiatives

Your area may have been granted special status, allowing the local and/or health authority to bid for additional funds. These initiatives include:

• New Deal for Communities (tackling multiple deprivation and social exclusion)

• Neighbourhood Support Fund (re-engaging disaffected young people)

• Coalfields Regeneration Trust & Coalfields Enterprise Fund

• Crime Reduction Programme (includes the resettlement of short-term prisoners)

• Health Action Zones

• Education Action Zones

• New Start (re-engaging 14 –17 year olds who have dropped out of learning/are at risk of doing so)

Details of all the above (including which areas they currently cover) are available on the DTLR’s website:

The National Lottery

There are currently 4 ‘Good Causes’ which share in 28p from every Lottery ticket sold:

• Sport; Heritage; Arts; Charities; Big Lottery Fund

Sport England funds buildings & equipment; at least 30% match funding needed (Contact: Tel: 0207 273 1500)

Heritage funds capital costs of museums, historic buildings, land, collections; at least 20% match funding needed (Contact: Lottery Team, National Heritage Memorial Fund, 10 St James Street, LondonSW1A 1EF Tel: 0207 930 0963)

Arts funds capital costs of arts venues & some revenue programmes. Contact: The Lottery Unit, The Arts Council, 14 Great Peter’s Street, London SW1P 2NQ Tel: 0207 333 0100

Big Lottery Fund (formerly the Community Fund and the New Opportunities Fund) Will continue to fund for charities and the voluntary sector and health, education and the environment, but will also take on the Millennium Commission's ability to fund large-scale regenerative projects. They are a fund for community transformation, from smaller grants at local level through to big capital projects, intended to regenerate and revitalise communities. They are likely to run a range of different types of funding programmes. Some of these will be 'open' grant programmes, where a wide range of organisations can apply by completing an application form. Other programmes are likely to concentrate on strategic partnership working across different sectors, funding for infrastructure and development, or opportunities for voluntary sector involvement in the delivery of community services. Tel. 0845 4 10 12 30 or

Awards for All,England offers grants of between £300 and £10,000 for projects that improve communities, and the lives of people within them. It is for voluntary and community groups, schools and health organisations, parish and town councils.Tel: 0845 600 20 40 for a small grants pack